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Hebrides ; also sparingly in the Pennine Range, and com- 

 monly in the Lake District, Wales, Devonshire, and Cornwall. 

 In the Shetlands its occurrence is doubtful, and in the 

 Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides it is very rare. On the east 

 coast and elsewhere it is an irregular visitor, and in some 

 winters numerous. In Irelimd it has disappeared as a 

 nesting-species, and is now an occasional autumn to spring 

 visitor. 



General Distribution. — The Buzzard breeds in western 

 Europe, from Scandinavia south of about 66° N. latitude, 

 the Baltic Provinces and Poland westwards ; also locally 

 in southern Europe, where it is sometimes common on 

 passage, when it leaves the more northern parts o£ its range. 

 In eastern and south-eastern Europe, western Asia, India, 

 and north and tropical Africa, also in the Azores, Madeira, 

 the ('anary Islands, and Cape Verde Islands it is represented 

 by allied races. 



Buteo lagopus. Rough-legged Buzzard. 



FalcO lagOpilS Bninnich, Orn. Bor. 1764, p. 4 : 

 Christianso Is., Baltic. 



Archibuteo lagopus (Gmel.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds S. M. i. 1874, 



p. 196 ; £. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 95. 

 Buteo lagopus Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 323. 



Lagopv,s = \aywirov's, rough-footed like a hare : from Xayw's and ttovs. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A regular Winter 

 Visitor from October to April, but its numbers vary 

 greatly from year to year. In the northern and eastern 

 parts of Scotland it is met with almost annually, sometimes 

 in considerable numbers : it is also tolerably frequent along 

 the east coast as far south as Norfolk and along the Pennine 

 Range, but is scarce elsewhere, especially to the west. In 

 the Outer Hebrides it has been noticed once only. From 

 Ireland there are seventeen records, mostly from Ulster. 



General Distribution. — The Rough-legged Buzzard breedsin 

 the northern portions of Europe and Asia ; from Scandinavia 



